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in washington, we had -- we haven't all news station called wtop. we now have two. but wtop dominates the these two are the top of the ratings, and they are not shouting. they are balanced. they're down the middle. on your program, i like how you manage to take issue with someone without criticizing them are joining them. >> i appreciate that. i tried to challenge a the disagreeing. it is not my job. >> in the end, happily, do not know what your politics argue that is probably a good thing. >> i appreciate that. what you mentioned there with an all news station and something like npr -- npr is a very recognized brand. they tend to go slowly and more in depth in the news. an all-news station is like a utility. something people put on like a toaster. i used to tell my staff at one station that we're like a toaster that talks. people push the button down and get the toast that they want and they are fine. people use that as a utility. with the talk shows, it is a little different. what i would also differentiate is the 26 as walruses the unsuccessful programs. what i m
in washington, we had -- we haven't all news station called wtop. we now have two. but wtop dominates the these two are the top of the ratings, and they are not shouting. they are balanced. they're down the middle. on your program, i like how you manage to take issue with someone without criticizing them are joining them. >> i appreciate that. i tried to challenge a the disagreeing. it is not my job. >> in the end, happily, do not know what your politics argue that is probably a...
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. >> thank you to wisconsin, maryland, and washington, d.c. >> this week on "inside washington," romney it racks up three more. now it is all about obama. >> we just got to get him out of office. >> the president attacks the ryan budget and mitt romney for backing it. >> he even called it marvelous. >> the president also takes on the supreme court. >> i am confident that the supreme court will not take the unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress. >> who will mitt romney choose as a running mate? >> it doesn't matter if that person has national level experience. they will get clobbered by the lamestream media, who does not like the conservative message. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> well, it turns out after all the commentary, mitt romney was inevitable after all, everything else was just noise. after this week's trifecta of wisconsin, maryland, and washington, d.c., it is all but in the bag for mitt romney. romney was never comfortable trashing fellow republica
. >> thank you to wisconsin, maryland, and washington, d.c. >> this week on "inside washington," romney it racks up three more. now it is all about obama. >> we just got to get him out of office. >> the president attacks the ryan budget and mitt romney for backing it. >> he even called it marvelous. >> the president also takes on the supreme court. >> i am confident that the supreme court will not take the unprecedented, extraordinary step of...
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>> a good counterbalance to george washington. for great evil you need great good. >> do you think we need msnbc and fox? is it competition? the polarity. it creates an incipient historical problem in that we sort of expect our next enemy to be china. this is part of the duality that seems to be so much part of history. do we need the duality? competition in the construction -- constructive sense. >> thomas edison said if you want to be successful, get a few enemies. competition and threats bring out -- for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. so, if you are going to have the great evil of and of hitler you need the great goodness of the west and churchill and chang kai shek and roosevelt to respond. >> this is highly readable but also a work of scholarship and you clearly are a scholar. i know people do not like to be described as intellectuals. they tend to think it in pews of their manhood. -- impugns their manhood. they were not thinking of the navi poets. nothing wrong with their manhood. how you were? not th
>> a good counterbalance to george washington. for great evil you need great good. >> do you think we need msnbc and fox? is it competition? the polarity. it creates an incipient historical problem in that we sort of expect our next enemy to be china. this is part of the duality that seems to be so much part of history. do we need the duality? competition in the construction -- constructive sense. >> thomas edison said if you want to be successful, get a few enemies....
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the international aids conference is taking place in washington, d.c.. a long list of officials and celebrities have come to take part, but they are speaking in a city with one of the worst hiv epidemics in the world. the rate of infection in washington, d.c., is on par with some african countries. the majority of those with the disease are black and a recent study shows that in the worst affected neighborhoods, as many as one in eight african-american women are living with hiv. >> almost all of the women in this room are infected with hiv. >> lives in friend -- losing a friend after friend. >> they come from washington neighborhoods. >> they do not put to a future here. >> a basic unprotected sex is comment. and many are in denial. >> called the and not know when something is wrong with your body -- how do you not know when something is wrong with your body? >> there are a lot of young girl when they think they cannot get it -- young burt women who think they cannot get. >> they will enter into a risky relationship because they need financial support. h
the international aids conference is taking place in washington, d.c.. a long list of officials and celebrities have come to take part, but they are speaking in a city with one of the worst hiv epidemics in the world. the rate of infection in washington, d.c., is on par with some african countries. the majority of those with the disease are black and a recent study shows that in the worst affected neighborhoods, as many as one in eight african-american women are living with hiv. >> almost...
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washington, d.c. and zimbabwe are literally worlds apart, but they both have some of the highest h.i.v. rates in the world and face remarkably similar challenges. tonight, we explore how prisons are dealing with the disease. visit our website for much more of our joint reporting with global post ahead of this weekend's aids conference. >> brown: there's another big meeting taking place in washington this week. native populations from around the u.s. convened at a conference on the impacts of climate change. hari sreenivansan has that story. >> sreenivasan: our series on "coping with climate change" has included multiple examples of how native american populations are feeling the impacts and adapting. we took you to coastal louisiana where tribal people are experiencing relative sea level rise in a very personal way. their islands are shrinking and their burial grounds will soon be underwater. the quiliuete tribe in washington state, whose reservation was down to its last square mile until they recentl
washington, d.c. and zimbabwe are literally worlds apart, but they both have some of the highest h.i.v. rates in the world and face remarkably similar challenges. tonight, we explore how prisons are dealing with the disease. visit our website for much more of our joint reporting with global post ahead of this weekend's aids conference. >> brown: there's another big meeting taking place in washington this week. native populations from around the u.s. convened at a conference on the impacts...
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with some of the most curious reporters in washington. some of them very top journalists to talk about the use of the time -- keep your -- great issues of the time. keep your curiosity ready. >> many have spoken out on the need to transition to a clean energy future. at exelon, we are acting. by 2020, we are committed to reducing, offsetting, or displacing more than 15 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually from greening our operations, helping customers and communities reduce emissions, and offering more low carbon electricity in the marketplace. at exelon, we are taking action and we are seeing results. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello again, and thank you for coming along. i promise you the best in the best here with me. linda gasparello of this program. she doesn't seem totally co
with some of the most curious reporters in washington. some of them very top journalists to talk about the use of the time -- keep your -- great issues of the time. keep your curiosity ready. >> many have spoken out on the need to transition to a clean energy future. at exelon, we are acting. by 2020, we are committed to reducing, offsetting, or displacing more than 15 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually from greening our operations, helping customers and communities...
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victory and fallout, tonight on "washington week." the lines were long. the victory party was robust. >> a long campaign is now over. and whether i earned your vote or not, i have listened to you. i have learned from you. and you've made me a better president. gwen: a the thank yous were fervert. >> i'm really proud of all of you. it will go on in history. people will read about it it. and they'll marvel about it. >> as president obama claimed his second term. the election turned out to be a lesson in truth and consequences. what did the obama campaign do right and what did the romney campaign do wrong? >> and i ran for office because i'm concerned about americans. this election is over. but our principles endure. >> the voters have their say. leaving washington to search for a compromise even as a fiscal crisis looms. >> this is an opportunity for the president to lead. this is his.
victory and fallout, tonight on "washington week." the lines were long. the victory party was robust. >> a long campaign is now over. and whether i earned your vote or not, i have listened to you. i have learned from you. and you've made me a better president. gwen: a the thank yous were fervert. >> i'm really proud of all of you. it will go on in history. people will read about it it. and they'll marvel about it. >> as president obama claimed his second term. the...
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tonight, from the state department in washington, d.c., conversations on diplomacy, with secretary of state hillary clinton, and former secretary of state james baker. >> tonight special edition of charlie rose. >> rose: tonight a special edition of charlie rose from the state department in washington, d.c. we bring you conversations on diplomacy. this series offers an opportunity to hear previous secretaries of state and the current secretary of state, hillary clinton. they reflect on the challenges of the office and address the most pressing issues of u.s. forepolicy. this evening we bring you our second installment of this see, featuring secretary of state clinton. there are seven living secretaries of state, henry kiss, joornlg schultz, madeleine albright, colin powell. and hillary clinton. the state department has announced a u.s. initiative. secretary clinton has spent nearly four decades in public service as an attorney. the first lady of the united states, a senator from new york, and a candidate for the 2008 democratic presidential nomination. he was appointed by president ob
tonight, from the state department in washington, d.c., conversations on diplomacy, with secretary of state hillary clinton, and former secretary of state james baker. >> tonight special edition of charlie rose. >> rose: tonight a special edition of charlie rose from the state department in washington, d.c. we bring you conversations on diplomacy. this series offers an opportunity to hear previous secretaries of state and the current secretary of state, hillary clinton. they reflect...
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george washington. teddy roosevelt, a loose cannon, greater, bully pulpit, description of the whole package. he convinced the term pack rat, observing some rode in on one of his travels. >> not a knock at the opposition. >> also gave maxwell house coffee its slogan, good to the last drop. >> really? >> he was at maxwell house -- at the maxwell house and was a very from a person and a prior to ask, what do you think of the coffee? he said, good to the last drop. but all the president's credit in vast numbers of words. i am of to close to 1000. and some are quite remarkable. john adams, for example, creates caucus but the second president also creates bobolink -- or the first derided down. it may have existed in full speech of the oxford english dictionary gives in the credit. my favorite is warren harding, who sort of brings back or popularizes normalcy, returning to normalcy. obloviate to get up -- >> of low va it is much in love on fox television -- obloviate. >> but the two who really surprises me --
george washington. teddy roosevelt, a loose cannon, greater, bully pulpit, description of the whole package. he convinced the term pack rat, observing some rode in on one of his travels. >> not a knock at the opposition. >> also gave maxwell house coffee its slogan, good to the last drop. >> really? >> he was at maxwell house -- at the maxwell house and was a very from a person and a prior to ask, what do you think of the coffee? he said, good to the last drop. but all...
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there's no way it could or should be done in washington and yet it's being done. cracks are doing the same thing by the way at the state levels. there's a lot more of what i think creates a more robust democracy in our state capitals. >> rose: interesting you say that. the governor in your own home state is looking at very low numbers is he not, governor scott. >> he is but he's doing what he said he would do. and he's acting on his core believes. he's trying different things. he's going through an interesting process of reviewing every rule and regulation. of which are obsolete. of which could be eliminated or adjusted to the new realities. that kind of thinking and that kind of execution on a thought is what seems to be lacking in washington d.c. the good thing about rick scott he doesn't seem to care, he didn't wake up like oh my god my approval rating went down 2 percentage points. i like that. >> rose: what do you say to those people who look at the world and think we live in a very different world, a different world order to use the expression your father us
there's no way it could or should be done in washington and yet it's being done. cracks are doing the same thing by the way at the state levels. there's a lot more of what i think creates a more robust democracy in our state capitals. >> rose: interesting you say that. the governor in your own home state is looking at very low numbers is he not, governor scott. >> he is but he's doing what he said he would do. and he's acting on his core believes. he's trying different things. he's...
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sister simone campbell heads the catholic activist group network based in washington, d.c. a lawyer and poet, she has long been a fearless advocate for the poor and marginalized in america, so fearless she recently took on two other combative catholics, bill o'reilly and his alter ego, stephen colbert. robert royal is founder and president of the faith and reason institute, also in washington, dedicated, in his words, to "the twin strands out of which america and any good and free social fabric are woven." he is also editor-in-chief of this online publication, "the catholic thing," and the author of many books, including "the god that did not fail: how religion built and sustains the west." but first, buckle your seat belts. we're going to take a road trip across america's heartland with "nuns on the bus." and as you watch, remember, this cross-country journey took place two mmonths before paul ryan became mitt romney's choice for vice president. >> faith is like walking through a mist with your eyes wide open. reminds me of when i was a kid in long beach and we'd stand out
sister simone campbell heads the catholic activist group network based in washington, d.c. a lawyer and poet, she has long been a fearless advocate for the poor and marginalized in america, so fearless she recently took on two other combative catholics, bill o'reilly and his alter ego, stephen colbert. robert royal is founder and president of the faith and reason institute, also in washington, dedicated, in his words, to "the twin strands out of which america and any good and free social...
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. >> tom: darren gersh is our washington, d.c., bureau chief. >> well, i have to tell you, the defense industry was really excited about this. the ceo of the aerospace industry association had a conference with reporters and said she left out of her chair with joy when she heard this noise. they're very excite body t. the white house was spending time walking this back saying that basically the president didn't say anything new. the sequester was never intended actually to take effect. that's what the president meant when he said we'll find a way to get past this. what i am hearing from people in washington and familiar with what's going on is that there's more optimism about reaching a deal. wannot huge optimism, but more than there was before. >> tom: every journey starts with a step forward. what conditions has the president put out there publicly in order to avoid a fiscal cliff and get support? >> it seems pretty clear that the president is insisting that the debt limit be extended and raised so that we don't have another one of these cliff hanger decisions about whether or not th
. >> tom: darren gersh is our washington, d.c., bureau chief. >> well, i have to tell you, the defense industry was really excited about this. the ceo of the aerospace industry association had a conference with reporters and said she left out of her chair with joy when she heard this noise. they're very excite body t. the white house was spending time walking this back saying that basically the president didn't say anything new. the sequester was never intended actually to take...
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[laughter] >> and washington state. >> let's give a shout out to the state of maryland. voters in maryland passed the dream dream act. if you're qualified, you will have an in-state rate. good for maryland. >> last word. thank you. see you next week. >> for a transcript of this broadc ot,og lnto -- is"inside washington" brought to by the american association of federal employees. -- government employees, proud to make america work. for more information andwe mesheritip, visit our website. e. alan alda: coming up on "the human spark, i come face to face with a chimp torn between being friendly...
[laughter] >> and washington state. >> let's give a shout out to the state of maryland. voters in maryland passed the dream dream act. if you're qualified, you will have an in-state rate. good for maryland. >> last word. thank you. see you next week. >> for a transcript of this broadc ot,og lnto -- is"inside washington" brought to by the american association of federal employees. -- government employees, proud to make america work. for more information andwe...
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>> i'm not actually sure it's in washington. i think it's from a deeper cultural problem. i'm struck by in this election now it was possible to lie without any negative consequences for both parties. that's a national problem. people weren't willing to punish candidates on their own side for lying we have to have a different attitude toward death as far as taxes, you have to be willing to pay for the government you want and the american people are not right now. so while i agree all the innovation is going on around the country, america is still america, we're s alexis detoqueville's country, we have a great higher education system, i still think there are certain cultural problems with the country that we haven't faced. one of them meacham mentioned -- jon mentioned the word followership. we've become much too cynical about government. people in the 1920s, 1930s, 1880s were not confronted with magical great government but they had faith in it. now we think we're better than whoever it is that happens to be governing us. >> i want to pick up something david says. i don't h
>> i'm not actually sure it's in washington. i think it's from a deeper cultural problem. i'm struck by in this election now it was possible to lie without any negative consequences for both parties. that's a national problem. people weren't willing to punish candidates on their own side for lying we have to have a different attitude toward death as far as taxes, you have to be willing to pay for the government you want and the american people are not right now. so while i agree all the...
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pouring with rain here in washington, d.c. it must feel a world away, both weather-wise and politically. >> yes, it does. we woke up here this morning thinking the president wag going to launch his campaign. we knew this was going to be a big moment with bill clinton rolling out the big guns, if you like, and that was all canceled rather suddenly just as we woke up. so it was really strange knowing he was flying back to cope with a crisis while the rally went on and the normal things you hear at these rallies, the political campaign was going on. and the storm was mentioned by bill clinton but really not heavily. only in passing. and i think people are obviously talking about it to a certain extent. it's not in the front of their minds. what it does politically, conventional campaigning has ceased. it takes the two candidates off the media. i don't think people will be interested in them anyway. the normal style of campaigning has stopped. i don't mean politics has stopped. i think this is an important political moment. but th
pouring with rain here in washington, d.c. it must feel a world away, both weather-wise and politically. >> yes, it does. we woke up here this morning thinking the president wag going to launch his campaign. we knew this was going to be a big moment with bill clinton rolling out the big guns, if you like, and that was all canceled rather suddenly just as we woke up. so it was really strange knowing he was flying back to cope with a crisis while the rally went on and the normal things you...
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city paper in washington, d.c. monika bauerlein was the investigator editor of mother jones and an editor at city pages in minneapolis, st. paul. their dark money project is produced with support from the shoeman media center of which i'm president. their latest issue of "mother jones" is a spellbinding look at dark money's history in the 40 years since the watergate scandal brought down richard nixon in a tangled web of break-ins and bad men. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> thank you, bill. >> love your cover, want to buy an election? dracula with his jacket open and american flag in it. want to buy an election? both parties play this game. both parties raise as much money as they can, go as close lo the law as they can will do almost anything to raise it. is there some distinction between the money that flows through the republican party and the money that flows through the democratic party? >> it used to be more equivalent than it is today. we remember covering the clinton era scandals, and at that time th
city paper in washington, d.c. monika bauerlein was the investigator editor of mother jones and an editor at city pages in minneapolis, st. paul. their dark money project is produced with support from the shoeman media center of which i'm president. their latest issue of "mother jones" is a spellbinding look at dark money's history in the 40 years since the watergate scandal brought down richard nixon in a tangled web of break-ins and bad men. welcome to you both. >> thank you....
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in washington i thought maybe that new stimulus could give me... allow me to say some things that i hadn't been able to say. and it was too actually first of all to make a theater that was about to close still exist. and, two, to create a real audience for shakespeare and to find an accessible american style that had nothing to do with dumbing it down, it had nothing to do with changing the words. it just had to do to find a way to be clear and interesting and speak directly to the audience. and i was able to do that in what was originally a small theater and is now a much larger one. >> rose: is there anything different about washington, d.c. in terms of what you're trying to do? >> well, the audience, of course. first of all, it's a very smart audience. >> rose: and power is a second language there. >> and there's no question that shakespeare deals with politics and power and the private man and the public man. really it's one of his great themes and so it's very easy to do something relevant. people say "how come your plays are so relevant, mich
in washington i thought maybe that new stimulus could give me... allow me to say some things that i hadn't been able to say. and it was too actually first of all to make a theater that was about to close still exist. and, two, to create a real audience for shakespeare and to find an accessible american style that had nothing to do with dumbing it down, it had nothing to do with changing the words. it just had to do to find a way to be clear and interesting and speak directly to the audience....
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we already have connections there. >> professor harold dean trulear of howard university in washington, d.c. >>> in other news, mitt romney is poised to become the first mormon nominated for president on a major-party ticket. romney became the presumptive republican nominee after rick santorum exited the race earlier this week. but doubts remain over how strongly romney will appeal to religious conservatives who voted heavily in the primaries so far, mainly for santorum. >>> in connecticut, lawmakers voted to repeal the state's death penalty, making it the 17th state to abolish capital punishment. it's the fifth state to do so in the last five years. >>> if you have ever wondered what it is really like to be the pastor of a church, there's a book out about that. it's "this odd and wondrous calling," by two seasoned united church of christ pastors who know well the frustrations and joys of ministry, including some of the things that drive pastors crazy. ♪ >> at the wellesley congressional church in wellesley, massachusetts, outside boston, the senior minister is the reverend martin co
we already have connections there. >> professor harold dean trulear of howard university in washington, d.c. >>> in other news, mitt romney is poised to become the first mormon nominated for president on a major-party ticket. romney became the presumptive republican nominee after rick santorum exited the race earlier this week. but doubts remain over how strongly romney will appeal to religious conservatives who voted heavily in the primaries so far, mainly for santorum....
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city paper in washington, d.c. monika bauerlein was the investigator editor of mother jones and an editor at city pages in minneapolis, st. paul. their dark money project is produced with support from the shoeman media center of which i'm president. their latest issue of "mother jones" is a spellbinding look at dark money's history in the 40 years since the watergate scandal brought down richard nixon in a tangled web of break-ins and bad men. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> thank you, bill. >> love your cover, want to buy an election? dracula with his jacket open and american flag in it. want to buy an election? both parties play this game. both parties raise as much money as they can, go as close lo the law as they can will do almost anything to raise it. is there some distinction between the money that flows through the republican party and the money that flows through the democratic party? >> it used to be more equivalent than it is today. we remember covering the clinton era scandals, and at that time th
city paper in washington, d.c. monika bauerlein was the investigator editor of mother jones and an editor at city pages in minneapolis, st. paul. their dark money project is produced with support from the shoeman media center of which i'm president. their latest issue of "mother jones" is a spellbinding look at dark money's history in the 40 years since the watergate scandal brought down richard nixon in a tangled web of break-ins and bad men. welcome to you both. >> thank you....
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it is literally a traffic circle in washington, d.c. how did he come in shaping the time he lives in? >> well, the point you raised earlier in your commentary is good for this book. this is a story about 12 people who we now know as monumental historical figures. but at the beginning of this story, they are very ordinary people. just like us. they are heir to all the failings and faults. >> you have developed a modesty that i do not remember, james. >> one does not think of frank -- of franklin roosevelt as being an ordinary man, yet all of his life he was terribly cash-strapped. >> as was churchill, by the way. >> absolutely. as for felix frankfurter, the great supreme court justice, and walter lippmann, the most influential political commentator of the 20th century, they all began in bachelor's boarding houses, or in apartments or, in the roosevelts' case, in a gift house given them, loaned to them by a cousin. >> boarding houses have died out. that is a pity because boarding houses, you created instant friends, salt the need for sing
it is literally a traffic circle in washington, d.c. how did he come in shaping the time he lives in? >> well, the point you raised earlier in your commentary is good for this book. this is a story about 12 people who we now know as monumental historical figures. but at the beginning of this story, they are very ordinary people. just like us. they are heir to all the failings and faults. >> you have developed a modesty that i do not remember, james. >> one does not think of...
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what do we see in washington? we see democrats and republicans wasting precious time, fighting each other instead of getting together to solve these problems and meet these challenges. it seems that it's time to do something to get the two-party system working again, to bring it some shock therapy to get it going. i think that's what american life is all about. >> reporter: why do you like this idea? what do you want to see happen this year? >> i want to see us get over this partisan gridlock that david was talking about. we have real issues in this country. we have real problems. we have to solve them. not every issue is a partisan political issue. we have policy decisions that need to be made. when i looked at american-elect and was first asked to consider going on the board, first of all let's open the process. we have over 4,000 delegates. that's more than if you go back through the history of the two parties and all their conventions, more than you have all of them put together. we're opening the process to p
what do we see in washington? we see democrats and republicans wasting precious time, fighting each other instead of getting together to solve these problems and meet these challenges. it seems that it's time to do something to get the two-party system working again, to bring it some shock therapy to get it going. i think that's what american life is all about. >> reporter: why do you like this idea? what do you want to see happen this year? >> i want to see us get over this...
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reagan national in washington and other airports were practically deserted after thousands of flights were canceled. and at sea, the 63-year-old captain from a replica of the h.m.s. bounty was still missing after his ship sank off cape hatteras north carolina. now on the ground reports beginning with the situation in new york city. warren levinson is with the associated press and he joins me now. welcome. so we just reported some of the statistics we've seen some pictures, but tell us what you're seeing with your own eyes. >> well, judy, what you're seeing around new york is a city that just looks paralyzed. what's interesting is really what we can't see which is the kind of damage that the storm surge has wrought underground. so much of what we depend on here in new york is underground. electrical lines. subway lines. steam lines. that was inundated with salt water. we really don't know how long it will be before we get to resume our regular lives once that infrastructure gets put back. you saw people walking around today kind of aimlessly because there's no transit. so if you want t
reagan national in washington and other airports were practically deserted after thousands of flights were canceled. and at sea, the 63-year-old captain from a replica of the h.m.s. bounty was still missing after his ship sank off cape hatteras north carolina. now on the ground reports beginning with the situation in new york city. warren levinson is with the associated press and he joins me now. welcome. so we just reported some of the statistics we've seen some pictures, but tell us what...
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he did not just go to washington, d.c. and become involved in public service to try and make a name for himself; he instead went to make things better for the american people. >> holman: ryan, 42, is married and has three school-age children. he was a protege of former republican congressman and vice presidential candidate jack kemp. ryan first was elected to congress in 1998 and now is serving his seventh term. he became chair of the house budget committee last year after republicans took control following the 2010 midterm elections. in that role, ryan authored a budget that would require sweeping cuts in federal spending, repeal the president's health care law, and impose changes for future medicare recipients to hold down costs. democrats say his proposals would gut medicare, but romney assured his audience in florida today that the republican ticket will "preserve and protect medicare." and in an interview sunday with cbs news' "60 minutes", he insisted his campaign would not be based on the ryan budget. >> well, i hav
he did not just go to washington, d.c. and become involved in public service to try and make a name for himself; he instead went to make things better for the american people. >> holman: ryan, 42, is married and has three school-age children. he was a protege of former republican congressman and vice presidential candidate jack kemp. ryan first was elected to congress in 1998 and now is serving his seventh term. he became chair of the house budget committee last year after republicans...
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al, let me go down to washington. what are you looking for tomorrow evening when you sit down and not only broadcast or cable cast but you're also looking for signs. what signs are you looking at? what interests you? >> charlie a couple things. first before anything is florida. if obama wins florida-- and i agree with the consensus here that it tilts to romney-- if obama wins florida it's game, set, match. the other guy can't win. but apart from that i want to look at first of all -- i want to look at this profile. i want to see what the latino vote is, how big it is. i want to see how the youth vote compares to last time. my guess is some issues we thought would be big a couple months ago like medicare haven't been big at all and i want to see again mark mentioned those places earlier. ohio is a fascinating place because it's so diverse. and the valley as nothing in common with hamilton county yet they'll both be critical in different ways so it will be a fascinating election no matter what. >> rose: hamilton county
al, let me go down to washington. what are you looking for tomorrow evening when you sit down and not only broadcast or cable cast but you're also looking for signs. what signs are you looking at? what interests you? >> charlie a couple things. first before anything is florida. if obama wins florida-- and i agree with the consensus here that it tilts to romney-- if obama wins florida it's game, set, match. the other guy can't win. but apart from that i want to look at first of all -- i...
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in washington, and 9:00 a.m. in beijing. >> ma jing is the director general of cc-tv america. >> this is a natural outgrowth of china's central television. cctv has 42 channels which it reach 1.2 billion audience in china. the market is almost saturated so we're only seek a grth point on the global market. >> reporter: chinese government owned and operated, cctv america rolled out last month, unveiling through me problem programs programs in enr american viewers. americans can watch cctv on cable and satellite system across the country. there's asia, america, one hour, five nights a week, reporting on general news with an emphasis on economics, finance, trade, and business, as it relates to north and south america and china. former bloomberg and cnbc correspondent phillip yen is the lead anchor. >> this is a group of international journalists working together for one single common goal and in my case, it's to demonstrate business news from an international perspective. >> reporter: mike walter is the general news
in washington, and 9:00 a.m. in beijing. >> ma jing is the director general of cc-tv america. >> this is a natural outgrowth of china's central television. cctv has 42 channels which it reach 1.2 billion audience in china. the market is almost saturated so we're only seek a grth point on the global market. >> reporter: chinese government owned and operated, cctv america rolled out last month, unveiling through me problem programs programs in enr american viewers. americans can...
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and we need to do it in washington as well. [cheers and applause] and we restored common sense in our regulations. and you know what? we still protect the american. we protect our families, but we don't overregulate and kill the job creators in our state. we want to honor the job creators in our state and work with them because they help our families. i want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, just like what mitt romney is going to face, the actions that we took were not always easy. and the actions that we took were not always popular. but you know what? when you get yourself in public service, you must lead and you must do what is necessary. i want to tell you the good news of where we are today. i told a minute ago that when we came into office we were 48th in job creation. you know where we are today? we're fourth in america in job creation and number one in the midwest. [cheers and applause] we went from 89 cents in our raining day -- rainy day fund to $500 million in surplus, a half a billion dollars in surplus from being
and we need to do it in washington as well. [cheers and applause] and we restored common sense in our regulations. and you know what? we still protect the american. we protect our families, but we don't overregulate and kill the job creators in our state. we want to honor the job creators in our state and work with them because they help our families. i want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, just like what mitt romney is going to face, the actions that we took were not always easy. and the...
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it's 1718 m street nw, washington, d.c. this is m street. 1708 on the left. 1718, which i don't understand. all right, i'm going to go figure out what's going on. sir, could you just wait here one sec? oh, you know what it is? i know exactly what it is. here's what it is. it's a box. right? has to be. 1-1-5. 1-1-5. so citizens for strength and security fund lives right here at this address. since there was nobody home, i went back to american bridge, the super pac that does research for these 501c4 ads. we actually tried to get a hold of them. went to their website, can't find anything. we did track down an address, which, as it turns out, is here in washington, d.c. it's not far from here actually. it's over on m street, 1718 m street. which is, as it turns out, is a ups store. and you go in and they've rented a mail box there. so i'm just trying to find the connection between the information you guys find and provide to groups like citizens for strength and security fund, which does not have to disclose its donors and who
it's 1718 m street nw, washington, d.c. this is m street. 1708 on the left. 1718, which i don't understand. all right, i'm going to go figure out what's going on. sir, could you just wait here one sec? oh, you know what it is? i know exactly what it is. here's what it is. it's a box. right? has to be. 1-1-5. 1-1-5. so citizens for strength and security fund lives right here at this address. since there was nobody home, i went back to american bridge, the super pac that does research for these...
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today at the washington, d.c., headquarters of the competitive enterprise institute, a free market think tank, you can see myron ebell's philosophy proudly displayed on the walls. >> they're all cei authors... what we're fighting is the expansion of government. and there are many pretexts for expanding government. >> hockenberry: opposing government action on climate change to defend american freedom is a perfect fit. >> we felt that if you concede the science is settled and there is a consensus, you cannot... the moral high ground has been ceded to the alarmists. >> hockenberry: so you had to go to work and break down this consensu >> yes. and we did it because we believed that the consensus was phony. we believed that the so-called global warming consensus was not based on science but was a political consensus, which included a number of scientists. >> hockenberry: in 2009, agreement on global warming seemed part of the solid wave of enthusiasm that elected barack obama. with the changing of the guard in washington, there was a bipartisan call to action, a sense of inevitability. >> ma
today at the washington, d.c., headquarters of the competitive enterprise institute, a free market think tank, you can see myron ebell's philosophy proudly displayed on the walls. >> they're all cei authors... what we're fighting is the expansion of government. and there are many pretexts for expanding government. >> hockenberry: opposing government action on climate change to defend american freedom is a perfect fit. >> we felt that if you concede the science is settled and...
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. >> washington, d.c., is a southern city. it has a majority black population, largely because that's where the slaves owned by many members of congress were going to be housed and where the servants of many of the northern members of the congress were also going to be housed as well. fast-forward to the present day and suddenly you've got a city which is predominantly black, that has one of the most ferocious aids epidemics, not just anywhere in this country, it's anywhere in the world. five to eight percent of the adult population is thought to be infected. >> narrator: last year in washington, d.c., the prevalence of hiv was higher than rwanda, kenya, burundi, ethiopia and the congo. >> when you look at the aids epidemic in black america and you think about black america as if it were a country unto itself, it would have the 16th worst aids epidemic in the world. if black america were a country unto itself, it would be eligible for pepfar dollars. that is the type of response that we need if we're going to be serious about
. >> washington, d.c., is a southern city. it has a majority black population, largely because that's where the slaves owned by many members of congress were going to be housed and where the servants of many of the northern members of the congress were also going to be housed as well. fast-forward to the present day and suddenly you've got a city which is predominantly black, that has one of the most ferocious aids epidemics, not just anywhere in this country, it's anywhere in the world....
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when you talk about washington d.c., it's right next door. where did you develop these feelings about the size of government? where does this come from? >> you know, i have grandparents who immigrated to the country. i believe they came here to win for me the economic freedom and individual liberty that they lacked in their homelands and i feel that a larger government fundamental principlesallying that my grandparents came for. >> what about mitt romney does he connect with young people? one of the issues he has had is connecting with people. getting them to like him as well as support him. >> i think that mitt romney will be able to connect to young voters because he is talking specifically to the issues that impact my generation. mitt romney is[Ñ obviously very experienced with economic policy and fiscal conservativism as a private sector businessman and paul ryan as a fiscal conservative and champion of fiscal responsibility into the mix as well and the debt is obviously a big problem for members of the younger generation. >> all right.
when you talk about washington d.c., it's right next door. where did you develop these feelings about the size of government? where does this come from? >> you know, i have grandparents who immigrated to the country. i believe they came here to win for me the economic freedom and individual liberty that they lacked in their homelands and i feel that a larger government fundamental principlesallying that my grandparents came for. >> what about mitt romney does he connect with young...
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very close to washington d.c. in the southwest in dickinson county $29,000. >> it's a tremendous disparity. so much of those jobs in that urban crescent are defense-related. that's been a particular issue in this campaign. as this state looks to what may happen after the election with regard to see questions traition of those automatic and indiscriminate cuts that will take place in january 2 if the spending plan is not developed. so there's a lot of attention, a lot of focus on what may happen after see questions traition. that will be deeply interesting to those people who are making that kind of money because so much of that is oriented around the defense industry. >> sreenivasan: kathy lewis, thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. ifill: now let's go to 30,000 feet on this evening from presidential historians and newshour regulars michael beschloss and richard norton smith. you know, michael, i have heard time and time again throughout this campaign that this has been a campaign about small things. the bi
very close to washington d.c. in the southwest in dickinson county $29,000. >> it's a tremendous disparity. so much of those jobs in that urban crescent are defense-related. that's been a particular issue in this campaign. as this state looks to what may happen after the election with regard to see questions traition of those automatic and indiscriminate cuts that will take place in january 2 if the spending plan is not developed. so there's a lot of attention, a lot of focus on what may...